Carrot Rice/Pulao
Carrot rice or carrot pulao. A quick and delicious vegetable fried rice. Very easy to make yet taste is scrumptious.
Equipment
- 1 pressure cooker
- 1 Mixer grinder
- 1 Spatula
- 1 Wok or Pan
Ingredients
- 1 cup Basmati rice
- 1&1/2 tbsp Ghee or clarified butter
- 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
- 4 Green cardamom Crushed
- 3 Cloves Crushed
- 1 inch Cinnamon Broken
- 1 Bay leaf
- Salt
- 1 tsp Sugar optional
- 1&1/2 cup Water
- 4-5 Carrots Chopped or grated
- 3 Tomato Chopped
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 2-3 Onion Finely chopped
- 1 inch Ginger
- 3-4 cloves Garlic
- 2 tsp Kashmiri red chilli powder
- 1 tsp Cumin powder
- 1/2 tsp Garam masala powder
- 1-2 tbsp Cilantro or coriander leaves chopped
Instructions
- Grind the carrots. You can use little water to make smooth paste.Grind tomato, ginger and garlic. Keep aside.
- Heat ghee or clarified butter in a pressure cooker. Add cumin seeds, bay leaf, crushed cardamom, cinnamon and cloves. Let the cumin seeds crackle. Then add rice. Stir gently.
- Add salt and sugar. Mix well and add water. Close the lid. Switch off the flame after 1 whistle. Let the pressure cooker cool down.Fluff the rice gently. Discard the bay leaf.
- Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a nonstick pan. Add chopped onion. Fry till its starts to change colour. Add ginger, garlic and tomato paste. Saute till the raw smell goes away. Add the carrot paste.
- Saute and add salt, cumin powder, garam masala powder and kashmiri red chilli powder. If you are making for kids skip the red chilli powder.
- Add chopped coriander leaves or mint leaves.Saute till the mixture dried up completely.Now add the rice. Mix gently.
- Carrot rice or pulao is ready. Garnish with fried cashew nuts and coriander leaves or mint leaves.Serve hot with any raita, chutney or salad.
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Notes
1. You can add green peas, sweet corn or any vegetable of your choice in the rice. 2. If you want to make your rice more spicy add 1-2 green chilli with tomato, ginger garlic. Or use chopped green chilli and fry with onion.